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Reviews by beveragecaptain:

4/5 rDev +5.3%look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

1 pint .9 oz bottle. Mahr's Bock Beer pours out a slightly hazy, dark yellow color. It's quite pale for a bock. The aroma is herb tea and caramel. Big malty flavor. Tastes like bread and caramel. A lemony, tangy, herbal flavor comes in at the finish. The mouthfeel is medium. Great drinkability. Most beers this malty aren't so easy to drink. Yet another quality offering from Mahr's.

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Minimal collar presented but what an interesting looking brew. Light pale bronze, no head presented, but a real unique washed out but still light golden color. White tan collar presented with excellent carbonation and clarity.

What a killer aroma. Classic dense German malts, and a whiff of bubblegum of all things. Dense as all can be, slightly minty, and with a big sense of husky malt and sense of thickness coming. Crazy wicked stuff.

Palate matches just more of the notes on the aroma. Thick controlled body with lots of malt depth and coating. Mint and almost peppery finish with a sweet caramel and bubblegum candy. Hints of peppermint, and dense malt, thick grain, chewy mouthfeel all over.

T -- Big, sweet, tasty, bready malts up front with that light graham cracker character. The sort of malt flavor that's only found in fresh German lager. The breadiness lingers through a sample with the mildest of herbal & bitter hops in the finish to balance out the sweetness.

F -- Mouthfeel is soft and smooth with a light-medium body, very good to-style.

O -- This is a terrific rendition of a Heller Bock. Great malt character that begs gulp after gulp. The only ding in the scoring is the lack of good lager clarity, not sure why it's so cloudy. Makes me wish I was sitting at Mahr's Bierhall in Bamberg -- next best thing.

Deep gold color with a slight haze to it from being unfiltered. Small white head with good retention. The nose consists of sweet malty goodness but it's not too heavy, as some bocks can be. Also getting the slightest bit of fruit in the form of apple/pear in there as well. Rich bready malt flavor with very light herbal hops. Medium bodied and very smooth going down. Super clean tasting despite being both unfiltered and unpasteurized. Not the most complex bock, but among the most accessible and easy to drink. A winner in my book.

Pours a pale yellow, noticable yeast in suspension. Not much head and little lacing. Smells of bready malt, faint apple and vanilla tones, some lemony zest. Tastes of sweet maltness up front followed a decent bready profile. Finishes with a dry crispness. Mouthfeel fairly thin for a maibock.

A decent beer, didn't blow me away. Was expecting a little more bready malt and thicker mouthfeel for a Maibock.

Pours out chill hazed marmalade. Has a good sized head that clings to the sides well. There are some chunks in this, which is a put-off. Nice lacing rings. Smells typical of a maibock in the area of the almost worty malts. I get a lot of grape nuts from this. Honey and challah as well. There's a lot of that maltiness up front that's pushed out by a strong medicinal character and somewhat rough hop bitterness. Herbal and grassy hop flavors accompany the finish. Mouthfeel is fulsome with some carbonation that goes over the line in its force. This is all-around decent, but I don't see myself buying it again. There were some really great things about this beer that got balanced by some really awful ones, making this so-so.

From a half-liter bottle. It's attractive old-style German label is illustrated by a levitating, mischevious goat head.

Into a pilsner glass, this Mahr's bock yields a couple fingers of foam, capping a hazy orange body. Suspended particles reveal it is unfiltered. Foam dissipates to a halo around the glass. Smell is sweet, malty, sort of boozy.

Taste is sweet and malty, alcohol is present as it warms. Feels stronger than 6.5%, but i'll trust it. On the palate, it's honey and butterscotch tinged, verging on cloying. Toasty biscuit comes out in the aftertaste, which has a mildly drying hoppiness. No clues as to the freshness of the bottle, but something tells me it could be even better fresh. The malt flavor is well-developed, but it almost seems stale at times.

Mouthfeel is medium, not quite a "rich" taste, but full in the mouth. A little flat after the initial pass over the palate. On a hot day, a couple of these would hit the spot.

500 ml bottle, my bottle says 6.0% ABV. Served in a mug, the beer pours a hazy golden orange color with about a half inch off-white head. The brew smells like bready malt, apples, bananas and some light hops. Taste is similar to the aroma, but with the addition of some clove and a bit of citrus and grassy hops. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it has moderate carbonation and is easy enough to drink. I think it's an OK beer, but nothing stands out about it. Worth a try once, but I don't see myself buying it again anytime soon. $4.99 a bottle.

serene pale yellow with small bits of sediment hovering throughout, and a slight foamy head. smells of toffee, vanilla and grass waft up from the glass, forcefully released as the head dissolves. flavor is primarily of sweet pale malts, and some more sweet pale malts after that. wheatgrass and lemon are the undertones, and are left in the throat after swallowing this chewy mouthful of a beer.

this reminds me of recently making french toast with artisan bread baked with barley and sweet malts, and covering it in pure michigan maple syrup.

this is completely unlike what i thought i was getting into with this beer. completely unique.

Poured from half-liter bottle into a stein. Interesting appearance. Translucent dark orange-yellow in color, with a thin white head that dissipates fairly quickly. Interesting aromas and flavors as well. Solid malt presence as expected, but the yeast and hops contribute spiciness and citrus notes as well as a smooth bitterness. Mouthfeel is medium, with a clean and slightly astringent finish. Very tasty and satisfying beer, great pairing with dark breads, sausage, and aged cheese.

Mahrs Bräu Bock-Bier has a very thick, frothy, over-flowing, white head, a mostly clear, very bubbly, golden appearance, with noticeable sediment roiling about, and a bit of lacing left on the glass. The aroma is sharp, sweet, and grassy, with rich bread and subdued hop oil. Taste is of the same, with a noted alcohol presence, not unlike King Cobra Premium Malt Liquor. Mouthfeel is medium, and Mahrs Bräu Bock-Bier finishes dry, easy going, and good. A beer that everyone should try!

Although I lived in Bamberg Germany for years and tried many of Mahrs beer I had never tried this one until recently. I was trying to relive my early beer days but to be honest I was a little disappointed. It is an OK beer but not what I was hoping for.

Appearance- A nice amber that is a little cloudy with an average head and lace.

Picked up a bottle of this while I was in Alpine Helen, GA for the 2008 Oktoberfest. 500 ml bottle with "12 05" printed on the back of the label.

Poured a golden yellow with a very small white head that disappeared very quickly and left slight traces of lace on the walls of the glass.

Smelled almost entirely of sweet grain with just the faintest hint of fruit -- perhaps apricot?

Medium-to-full in body with almost no carbonation; tasted of sweet malt with no hop presence whatsoever and bordering on cloying, going down smoothly and finishing mostly sweet, though somewhat dry as well. A faint boozy alcohol presence can be ascertained sometimes as well, though it is barely noticeable.

Assuming that the number printed on the label is either the bottled date or the freshness date, it becomes rather obvious why this beer was so flat and full of nasty sediment in the bottle. Bocks aren't made to last three years, and it shows. I have a feeling that, had this beer been enjoyed fresher, it would have fared rather well.

This beer is yellow, orange with a big bubbly head and lots of carbonation to support that head.

Smell is a little sweet, stongly malty and some huskiness. There is also some vanilla.

Taste is little sweet and bitter, which is a bit sharp. The beer is very malty and must have a big amount of light caramalts in there, which make the body medium, lower the drinkability and give the beer it's vanilla and some honey taste. The hops are almost overpowered by the fullness of the body.

Tall, slim, slender 1 Pint, .09 fl oz bottle purchased from Super Saver in Somerville for $2.99...
Pours a clean, clear, lucid, appeljuice-like appearance with a minimal head that left a small amount of lacing around the glass before quickly receding...
Faint, sweet, sugared-aroma of vanilla and toffee...
Taste complements the smell, with noticeable suggestions of caramel, vanilla, sugars, phenols, and candies...
Sweet, candied, sugared-mouthfeel, very sweet and slightly on the cloying side...
Fairly easy level of drinkability thanks to the somewhat modest ABV...
Went down easily and was pretty refreshing, albeit kind of sweet...

Golden color with a finger of white head that leaves fairly weak lacing. A good amount of yeast floating around the glass. Nose of lots of caramel malt, and some lemon and orange citrus. Taste is likewise. Lots of spices, tons of caramel malt. Lots of tasty fruit, citrus, dried fruit (raisins specifically). Full, creamy body with good carbonation. I liked this one - nice flavor with a great body. Good beer at a good price.